The editor war is the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (now usually Vim, or more recently Neovim) text editors. The rivalry has become an enduring part of hacker culture and the free software community .

Bram Moolenaar (Dutch: [brɑ ˈmoːlənaːr]; 1961 – 3 August 2023) was a Dutch software engineer and activist who was the creator, maintainer, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim, [1] a vi -derivative text editor.

2019年7月10日 · For most of us, this tool becomes either Emacs or Vim. My history has seen me enter and grow in the cult of Vim; essential, seemingly an empty window, all functionality hidden in an endless forest of keybindings and shortcuts that persists in the mind of the user.

2022年7月9日 · We have come full circle by acknowledging the existence of a Vim cult, as ridiculed in the above funny video with the nerd character who excitedly announces “Vim is faster by 4.3 seconds!!”

2022年11月18日 · Hi welcome to the cult of vi. You have chosen wisely! :) Vim was based on vi (circa 1976) which was in turn based on ed which was designed for teleprinters. A lot of the default vi/vim settings reflect bygone days of computing and most vim users (myself included) have created their own .vimrc files that store all of our configurations and ...

Editor war is the common name for the rivalry between users of the vi and Emacs text editors. The rivalry has become a lasting part of hacker culture and the free software community. Many flame wars have been fought between groups insisting that their editor of choice is the paragon of editing perfection, and insulting the others.

2021年1月15日 · Vim has a cult following, of which I am a member. The learning curve can be a little frustrating, but once you pick up some shortcuts beyond insert (i) which brings you into editing mode, or saving and quitting ( <ESC> :wq) you can really start to see the value in it.

2025年1月10日 · The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project.

2024年8月8日 · Vim 是一个强大的文本编辑器，以其高效的键盘操作和灵活的编辑功能而闻名（“神之编辑器”）。掌握 Vim 的基本操作可以显著提高编程和文档编辑的效率。以下是笔者总结的一些常用的 Vim 操作技巧及其应用示例，助你快速成为 Vim 大神。

2018年11月2日 · Neovim is like vim, but newer. A neo-vim, if you will. Non vim users are a cult. Change my mind. Hey we're the popular cult though. We're not going to change your mind, because we're too busy being productive. emacs users are one letter different :O.